Cloud Software Engineer
About The Position
At MTSI, the Cloud Software Engineer builds and enhances enterprise catalog and metadata services that support intelligence discovery across the Air Force and Intelligence Community. The work modernizes how analysts access, curate, search, and share mission data, enabling secure, cloud-native information flow across domains and security enclaves and strengthening decision advantage in contested environments. The role architects and delivers scalable cloud-native microservices across AWS, Azure, or GCP; leads Kubernetes and containerization strategies; and designs secure CI/CD pipelines for multi-enclave deployments. It also improves cloud security posture, collaborates with product teams, SREs, cybersecurity, and mission stakeholders, troubleshoots complex production issues, and produces architecture and operational documentation. The engineer provides technical leadership and mentorship while balancing hands-on implementation with architectural planning.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
- At least 5 years of professional cloud engineering experience, including hands-on work with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Strong proficiency with Kubernetes, including deployments, networking, scaling, operators, and observability.
- Deep experience with Docker containerization and microservice design patterns.
- Proficiency in a modern programming language such as Python, C++, or Golang.
- Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with automated testing and secure release workflows.
- Solid understanding of distributed systems, cloud networking, and API design.
- Ability to obtain and maintain any required security clearances.
- United States citizenship and ability to obtain a TS/SCI security clearance.
Nice To Haves
- Experience architecting mission-critical or highly regulated cloud systems, such as DoD, Intelligence Community, aerospace, or critical infrastructure systems.
- Expertise in Kubernetes multi-cluster management, service mesh such as Istio or Linkerd, or advanced cluster hardening.
- Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Helm, or CloudFormation and GitOps workflows.
- Experience with event-driven or streaming architectures such as Kafka, Kinesis, or Pub/Sub.
- Strong background in cloud security design, including IAM, boundary protection, key management, and policy-as-code.
- Experience leading technical teams, driving architecture decisions, or serving as a technical subject matter expert.
- Cloud certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect, Azure Architect, GCP Professional Cloud Engineer, CKA, CKAD, or CKS.
Responsibilities
- Lead design and development of cloud-native services, including microservices architectures, API interfaces, and distributed data flows.
- Manage the Kubernetes lifecycle, including cluster architecture, networking, autoscaling, observability stacks, and cluster hardening.
- Define and maintain CI/CD architecture for multiple enclaves, including automated quality gates, SBOM generation, secure packaging, artifact governance, and mission-ready release pipelines.
- Implement infrastructure-as-code solutions using tools such as Terraform, Helm, and Kustomize for consistent, auditable, repeatable deployments.
- Integrate telemetry such as distributed tracing, metrics pipelines, operational dashboards, and automated alerting.
- Improve cloud security posture and ensure compliance with cloud security frameworks, zero-trust principles, IAM, secrets management, network policies, and enclave-specific access controls.
- Partner with product teams, SREs, cybersecurity, and mission stakeholders to align cloud solutions with system-of-systems architecture.
- Troubleshoot complex production issues across distributed systems, networking, and cloud infrastructure.
- Produce architecture diagrams, operational runbooks, technical approaches, and decision rationale for leadership.
- Lead technical planning, architecture reviews, risk analysis, and trade studies to shape long-term cloud roadmaps.
- Mentor engineers, guide code reviews, improve team processes, and promote cloud engineering and DevSecOps best practices.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
